Faster connection for SingTel mobile broadband

Singtel is tweaking its mobile broadband service to give customers on its higher-end plans a faster, more reliable connection on the go. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN SINGTEL is tweaking its mobile broadband service to give customers on its higher-end plans a faster, more reliable connection on the go. Singapore's biggest telco has also disclosed, for the first time, the average mobile broadband access speeds its customers can expect when they plug a dongle into their notebook computers to surf the Internet. The company's executive vice president of digital consumers, Mr Yuen Kuan Moon, said it had 'seen a sharp rise in mobile data usage with the explosive growth of new web-enabled devices and bandwidth-hungry multimedia applications'. In view of 'the rapidly growing number of customers who are demanding higher speeds with more consistent performance', it decided to roll out th...